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Help With Your Mother's Rule
Help With Your Mother's Rule is a forum for women who want trouble-shooting
help with their Mother's Rules or about any aspect of the 5 Ps of
the married vocation.
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Holly: This blog is composed of your questions.Contact me at the address listed on Holly's Notebook page
and I will post questions and answers. Please share your unique ideas as well. The more ideas and experience we share,
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Is Peer Socialization a Reason to School?
Dear Holly,
I have two little ones. My oldest is going to be five in January. Joey (not his real name) tends to be shy and we are living far away from close friends/family. So we decided that we would enroll him at a Catholic school in our area. Last year he went for two mornings a week. And this year he is there for three mornings. We have a good school that really tries to maintain a Catholic atmosphere. Still I know that the best school/teachers cannot shield him from influences that peers can bring. The more aware I become of the moral breakdown in families the more I want to bring him home. Period.
Here is my question: if I cannot (even with diligent effort) provide him with more than a couple of hours per week socializing with other little boys his age is that a reason to leave him at school? I know that I can get him to some kind of sports at the Y. I also know of another family with whom I could probably arrange a weekly playdate for an hour or two. But most of
the homeschool families from our parish with younger kids either have loads of siblings to hang with or live a long distance from us. When I have tried to gently suggest getting together for play I get the feeling that the moms are extremely busy and really can't find the time. I am frustrated because I want to give my children the best formation possible (and I think homeschooling is that). But since we are without grandparents, aunts, uncles, or really close friends here I am very conscious of the fact that we need other people in our lives. I don't want to have my kids isolated and lonely either. I keep waiting for the Lord to show me a way to make it work.
A second question is, just how much time do young children need to have with their peers? How can I know when I have it 'covered'?Labels: 4th P Parent, Homeschooling
posted by Holly at 1:26 PM
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Software for Rule Charts?
Dear Holly,
Are you familiar with any software that would easily enable me to set up 'blocks' of time? I use software for my calendar....but I would like to see something that is similar to the charts in your book. I feel like things repeat, I would like to tweak week by week if needed - and if it was 'electronic' that would be so much EASIER!!! Any help would be appreciated!! Perhaps you could post this request to your website to see if any others have suggestions?Labels: About a Rule of Life
posted by Holly at 7:15 PM
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A Farm Wife's Concerns
Dear Holly,
I am a farm wife. I would appreciate your thoughts on how to be available to husband, family, farm and all the flexibility required here. And also, I am interested in your suggestions for those who have not an overly-cluttered home, but a type of perfectionism which focuses on productivity in the home before the family - a work-a-holic mom, so to speak. I think this is my case. After my career training and professional work, I feel so productivity-oriented that I try to run my home in the same way. I am using your book to find a good balance, but would like to hear this addressed.Labels: About a Rule of Life
posted by Holly at 2:31 PM
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The Holy Family Institute
Dear Holly,
I am grateful for reading A Mother's Rule of Life. We have 7 children and we homeschool some of them. Since your book is part of the good press and you are interested in faithfulness to one's rule of life, did you know that:
Blessed Fr. James Alberione (founder of the Pauline family - Society of St. Paul, the daughters of St. Paul, etc.) founded in 1963 the Holy Family Institute for husbands and wives who wish to commit themselves to seeking evangelical perfection in marriage by means of the vows of conjugal chastity, poverty and obedience. In 1993 the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and the Societies of Apostolic Life approved the Statute of the Institute with a Decree: Therefore the members of the Institute should strive to conform their lives to the Statute, and when they obey a schedule - for example the normal times for mass, or the regular family schedule - they merit once because of simple obedience, and twice because of the vows of obedience that they have taken.
The Holy Family Institute is the only approved-by-the-Holy-See way for married or widowed people to become part of the religious congregation of the Pauline family. The condition of the members of the Holy Family Institute is secular in the sense that they strive for the perfection of charity in the world, while in a juridical sense they are aggregated to the Society of St. Paul and are part of the Pauline Family, who are dedicated to The Aposolate of the Good Press, Media and Social Communications. The Holy Family Institute is not a third order or a lay movement, but enables you to become a consecrated lay person in the context of married secular life... Pretty interesting, and I would like to know your thoughts on that.Labels: 1st P Prayer
posted by Holly at 3:28 PM
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Can Kids Hide Their Talents?
Dear Holly,
I have a question dealing with a child using their talents. My daughter loves to do gymnastics and is somewhat talented. However she is not interested in competition which appears to be the next step for her. I'm not so sure our family is right for competition, as well, since this takes many hours of practice and then hours for the competitions. I have another daughter who was involved in Irish Step Dance and it was great fun until we started getting into competitions. The other families were attending many competitions and we only went to a few. I felt I wasn't helping my child be successful in the competitions because we didn't attend as many as her classmates. My real question is whether or not this is like hiding their talents - talents given by God - by not taking part in some of these activities and competitions?Labels: 4th P Parent
posted by Holly at 3:15 PM
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